ON THE BEAUTY OF LANDSCAPE 

 PSYCHOLOGICALLY CONSIDERED 



tHAVE been reading several treatises 

 on art. It will be unnecessary now 

 to give a catalogue of the books, but 

 they covered a wide range. Some dealt 

 with the history of art, some with criticism, 

 some with aesthetics, some with composi- 

 tion, and some there were of special and 

 technical subjects. I found most of them 

 interesting and some truly captivating, 

 but with almost every page the strongest 

 impression in my mind was of what the 

 books did not say. 



This was all on account of the 

 prejudice with which I began. I had some 

 notions of my own. My mind was full of 

 a subject on which these art books were 

 expected to throw some light; but though 

 there often was, indeed, some agreeable 

 illumination thrown upon my prejudices, 

 it was remarkable how the light seemed 

 always to be directed another way. There 



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